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Ece Temelkuran: How To Lose A Country

Ece Temelkuran is one of the 2019 Syndey Writers' Festival's guests. Source: Suplied (Photo: Muhsin Akgün)

Ece Temelkuran, an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, makes an urgent call for action against right-wing populism in her new book, `How to Lose a Country.` She writes about her country's slide away from democracy and warns people who say "It couldn`t happen here." We interviewed Ece Temelkuran on the sidelines of the Sydney Writers' Festival...


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Ece Temelkuran, an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, makes an urgent call for action against right-wing populism in her new book, `How to Lose a Country.` She writes about her country's slide away from democracy and warns people who say "It couldn`t happen here." We interviewed Ece Temelkuran on the sidelines of the Sydney Writers' Festival...



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